公开(公告)号：US10092914B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-09

申请号：US15247740

申请日：2016-08-25

Applicant: General Fusion Inc.

Inventor： Victoria Suponitsky ,  Sandra Justine Barsky ,  J. Michel G. Laberge ,  Douglas Harvey Richardson ,  Peter Leszek Kostka

IPC: B05B1/26 ,  F15D1/08 ,  F15D1/00 ,  F17D1/00 ,  G21B3/00 ,  H05H1/24

Abstract: Examples of a jet control device are described. The jet control device can comprise a jet deflecting member that is configured to intercept and/or collide with a high speed jet emerging from a jet formation location. The interaction of the jet deflecting member and the jet can cause the high speed jet to be dispersed into a plurality of jets with a number of flow directions which may be sideways to an initial direction of the high speed jet. In one embodiment the deflecting member can include a liquid guide formed by injecting a fluid out of an outlet nozzle so that the liquid guide extends longitudinally away from the outlet nozzle. In another embodiment the deflecting member can include an array of solid pellets injected through an outlet in a direction of the emerging high speed jet and configured to collide with the emerging jet thereby deflecting its initial direction.

公开(公告)号：US20170333806A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-23

申请号：US15522460

申请日：2015-11-02

Applicant: General Fusion Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Douglas Mossman ,  David Franklin Plant

IPC: B01D1/00 ,  C23C14/06 ,  C23C14/24 ,  B01J3/03

CPC classification number: B01D1/0017 ,  B01D1/0082 ,  B01J3/03 ,  C23C14/06 ,  C23C14/14 ,  C23C14/24 ,  C23C14/243

Abstract: Examples of a device for gettering and surface conditioning are disclosed. The device comprises an elongated tube with a closed first end, a second end and a body extending between the first end and the second end. The body defines an inner cavity of the tube in which a heating device is inserted. The tube is inserted into a vessel so that the first end is positioned within the vessel. A solid metal is mounted closely to the tube in a region surrounding the heating device and a meshed screen is mounted over the solid metal and secured to the tube. When the heating device is on, the heat transfers through the tube's wall into the solid metal melting and vaporizing it, so that the metal vapors travel and coat onto vessel's surfaces. The device can also be used in producing metal alloys such as lead lithium alloys.

公开(公告)号：US09271383B2

公开(公告)日：2016-02-23

申请号：US14518965

申请日：2014-10-20

Applicant: General Fusion, Inc.

Inventor： Stephen James Howard ,  Michel Georges Laberge ,  Lon McIlwraith ,  Douglas Harvey Richardson ,  James Gregson

IPC: G21B1/03 ,  G21B1/19 ,  H05H1/02 ,  G21B3/00 ,  H05H1/54 ,  H05H1/24

CPC classification number: H05H1/02 ,  G21B3/006 ,  G21B3/008 ,  H05H1/24 ,  H05H1/54

Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for compressing plasma are disclosed in which plasma can be compressed by impact of a projectile on a magnetized plasma in a liquid metal cavity. The projectile can melt in the liquid metal cavity, and liquid metal may be recycled to form new projectiles.

Abstract translation: 公开了用于压缩等离子体的系统和方法的实施例，其中可以通过射弹对液态金属腔中的磁化等离子体的冲击来压缩等离子体。 抛射体可以在液态金属腔中熔化，并且液态金属可以被再循环以形成新的射弹。

公开(公告)号：US20150321223A1

公开(公告)日：2015-11-12

申请号：US14655639

申请日：2014-02-07

Applicant: GENERAL FUSION, INC.

Inventor： Lon William McIlwraith ,  Michel G. Laberge

IPC: B06B1/18 ,  F04D35/00

CPC classification number: B06B1/183 ,  B06B1/18 ,  F04D35/00 ,  F42D3/06 ,  G01V1/135

Abstract: Examples of a pressure wave generator configured to generate high energy pressure waves in a medium are disclosed. The pressure wave generator can include a sabot carrying a piston. The sabot can further comprise a locking means to lock the piston in a fixed position when the locking means are activated. When the locking means are in a deactivated position, the piston can be released and can move at least partially away from the sabot. The sabot carrying the piston can be disposed within an inner bore of a housing of the pressure wave generator and can move within the inner bore of the housing from its first end toward its second end along a longitudinal axis of the bore. A transducer can be accommodated in the second end of the housing. The transducer can be coupled to the medium and can convert a portion of the kinetic energy of the piston into a pressure wave in the medium upon impact of the piston with the transducer. The sabot carrying the piston can be accelerated by applying a motive force to the sabot. Once accelerated within the inner bore of the housing the sabot can be decelerated by applying a restraining force to the sabot while the piston can be released at least partially from the sabot to continue to move toward the transducer until it impacts the transducer. Examples of methods of operating the pressure wave generator are disclosed.

Abstract translation: 公开了在介质中产生高能压波的压力波发生器的实例。 压力波发生器可以包括承载活塞的膛体。 所述膛塞还可包括锁定装置，以在所述锁定装置被启动时将所述活塞锁定在固定位置。 当锁定装置处于停用位置时，活塞可以被释放并且可以至少部分地远离膛体移动。 携带活塞的支架可以设置在压力波发生器的壳体的内孔内，并且可以沿壳体的纵向轴线从壳体的第一端部朝向第二端部的内孔内移动。 传感器可以容纳在壳体的第二端。 传感器可以耦合到介质，并且可以在活塞与换能器冲击时将活塞的动能的一部分转换成介质中的压力波。 可以通过向膛体施加动力来加速承载活塞的膛塞。 一旦在壳体的内孔内加速，则可以通过在活塞至少部分地从活塞释放活塞以继续朝向换能器移动直到其冲击换能器来施加约束力而将减震器减速。 公开了操作压力波发生器的方法的实例。

公开(公告)号：US20150216028A1

公开(公告)日：2015-07-30

申请号：US14422675

申请日：2013-08-29

Applicant: General Fusion Inc.

Inventor： Michel G. Laberge ,  Meritt Reynolds

IPC: H05H1/54 ,  H05H1/16

CPC classification number: H05H1/54 ,  G21B1/00 ,  G21B1/15 ,  G21B3/00 ,  H05H1/105 ,  H05H1/16 ,  Y02E30/122 ,  Y02E30/16 ,  Y02E30/18

Abstract: Examples of a plasma acceleration and compression device are described. The device includes a plasma accelerator with a high compression funnel section extending from an inlet of the accelerator and an elongated section connected to the high compression funnel section that can extend from the end of the funnel section to an accelerator's outlet. The funnel section can be a cone with a steep tapering while the elongated section can have a mild, gentle, tapering along its length toward the outlet. The device further includes a power source for providing a current pulse to the accelerator to generate a pushing flux to accelerate and compress a plasma torus throughout the accelerator. The current pulse can be so shaped so that the current pulse behind the plasma torus at the outlet of the elongated section is significantly smaller than the current pulse at the first end of the elongated section while the pressure of the plasma torus at the outlet of the elongated section is greater than the pressure of the plasma torus at the beginning of the elongated section.

Abstract translation: 描述等离子体加速和压缩装置的实例。 该装置包括具有从加速器的入口延伸的高压缩漏斗部分的等离子体加速器和连接到高压缩漏斗部分的细长部分，其可以从漏斗部分的端部延伸到加速器的出口。 漏斗部分可以是具有陡峭锥形的锥体，而细长部分可以沿其长度朝向出口具有温和，温和的锥形。 该装置还包括用于向加速器提供电流脉冲以产生推进通量的电源，以加速和压缩整个加速器中的等离子体环面。 电流脉冲可以如此成形，使得细长部分出口处的等离子体环面后面的电流脉冲显着小于细长部分的第一端处的电流脉冲，而等离子体环面处的压力在 细长部分大于在细长部分的开始处的等离子体环面的压力。

公开(公告)号：US20110243292A1

公开(公告)日：2011-10-06

申请号：US13161852

申请日：2011-06-16

Applicant: Stephen James HOWARD ,  Michel Georges LABERGE ,  Lon MCILWRAITH ,  Douglas Harvey RICHARDSON ,  James GREGSON

Inventor： Stephen James HOWARD ,  Michel Georges LABERGE ,  Lon MCILWRAITH ,  Douglas Harvey RICHARDSON ,  James GREGSON

IPC: H05H1/12

CPC classification number: H05H1/02 ,  G21B3/006 ,  G21B3/008 ,  H05H1/24 ,  H05H1/54

Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for compressing plasma are disclosed in which plasma can be compressed by impact of a projectile on a magnetized plasma in a liquid metal cavity. The projectile can melt in the liquid metal cavity, and liquid metal may be recycled to form new projectiles.

Abstract translation: 公开了用于压缩等离子体的系统和方法的实施例，其中可以通过射弹对液态金属腔中的磁化等离子体的冲击来压缩等离子体。 抛射体可以在液态金属腔中熔化，并且液态金属可以被再循环以形成新的射弹。